Who Worked Late & on Weekends (WWLW) Report [Depending on how fussy your Management is]

Diplomacy

Note that the STLC phases mentioned above do not necessarily have to be in the order listed; some phases can sometimes run in parallel (For instance, Test Designing and Test Execution). And, in extreme cases, the phases might also be reversed (For instance, when there is Cursing prior to Testing).

Interestingly, no matter how well-defined a Software Testing Life Cycle you have in your project or organization, there are chances that you will invariably witness the following widely-popular cycle:

Testing

Cursing

In this type of STLC, you skip phases like design review, test planning, etc – in the hope that the skipping will save you some time and/or cost [But, it never does].